The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-12
ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND
THE SOCIETY HOLDS ITS
EIGHTEENTH REUNION.
The Principal Feature OF the
Meeting Will be the Un-
yelling OF the
STATUE OF GEN JAMES A.
GARFIELD.
The Fisheries Question viii be
Settled Amicably - Elk Cadets
Flipper and Whitaker.

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE eight
eenth reunion OF the Society of the
Army of the Cumberland was il aug
tirated this morning at 10 o'clock by
a business meeting at the Grand Army
of the Republic hall, near the corner
of Pennsylvania avenue and Fifteenth
street. The weather is exceptionally
fine; the we'll shaded avenues and
parks Of the government buildings
never looked more beautiful than on
this May morning, and elaborate
preparations have been made by the
committees in charge of the entertain.
ment OF the members and guests OF
the society. The principal features OF
the meeting will be the unwilling of
the statue OF Gen. James A. Garfield
The following is the programme
covering the two days OF the reunion:
This evening at 8 o'clock the annual
Grafton will be delivered at the Con-
gregational church at the corr er OF
Tenth and @ streets. The programme
OF the evening will be:
''Nearer Ny God to Thee" Marine Band
prayer......TheR Rev. @. NJ. Pine, late Sixth
:, United States InfantEy. D NIL.
President Of the Board of Commits
sioners, District of Columbia.
Response"..."Lieutenant General Sheridan,
oapri'e''''''''jMii, srinc Band. 00pp'i'HH
Assistant Provost Marshal General,
Army Of the Cumberland, and late
Adjutant Ninth Michigan Volunteer
MusicG"Dsy in Camp" .........,:: Marine Band
Army "Reminiscences. .....G Gen. W.T.. Sherman
and Gen. Rosecrans, Commanders of
the Army Arm. Ct the G9PSeTand Marin. Rand
A Talk to the aSojer Boys" ......Andrew q.
Curtin, the War Governor.
Music" Tenting on the Old Campground'
The Franz Abt Club:
Music......,,.....'' Marching Through Georgia"
The Franz Abt Club. (Audience JON
Bepeaiot y TnO Tho Rev. e. D. D. niels,
Grand Army Of the Republic, Depart
mont of the Potomac.
While the audience Ietires the Marine
Band will play Hail Columbia" Yankee
Doodle" etc.
At 10 O'Clock pm, there will be a
symposium at Abner hall, opposite
the Postoffics Department.
On Thursday morning at 10 o'clock
q business meeting will be held. At
l o'clock the exercises attending the
unwilling OF the statue of Gen. James
A. Garfield will take place at the Cir
Gle, west of the south wing Of the Cap
itol, at the intersection of First street
and Maryland avenue. At 80 o'clock
there will be an excursion to Mount
Vernon and Marshall Hall. There
will be q planked shad dinner at Mar
shall Hall.
The new Grand Army hall, where
the business nesting was held this
morning, was gsily decorated with
banners and flaVs, rosetted and fes-
TONED, mammoth palm leaves and
the insignia OF the old army corps.
Across the front of the building on
long white streamer appeared the le-
gend, "Welcome, Army OF the Cum
berland." At IL O'Clock the president
OF the society, Gen. Sheridan, called
the meeting to order and explained
that the postponement from time to
time of the eighteenth reunion was
due to the delay in the completion of
the Garfield statue, it being the desire
of the society to conduct the unveil-
ing ceremonies at this meeting. There
were about 100 members of the socie-
ty present. The reports of the COM
mittees were read and approved. The
president announced the membership
of the several committees for the COM
ing year and the meeting adjourned.
The election of officers OF the society
will take place tomorrow morning.
Just before the adjournment Gen.
Cist called attention to the movement
started in Cincinnati to erect monu.
ment to Gen. William II. Lyttle, who
lost his life at Chicamsugua. The
friends Of the movement in Cincin-
natl, he said, desired that the Society
OF the Army OF the Cumberland
should nominslly take charge Of the
matter. They desired to have the
monument erected under the auspices
of the society, but not to have the
society undertake any liability for in
debtedness. He made motion, which
prevailed, that committee of five be
appointed to consider the matter.
amsterdam said he would announce
the committee tomorrow. A letter
wss read from Gen. Buell., dated at
Louisville, expressing his deep inter-
est in the society and regret at his in
ability to accept the special invita-
ton rendered him to be present. It
was voted that the society's best
wishes for his future welfare be COM
municatsd to Gen. Buell..
Careers OF Rx -COIOred Cadets.